Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama’s most important essays.

Explores how popular novels, short stories, and television shows from the United States and Britain illustrate the positive effects of feminism and promote gender equity.

Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland’s transforming global identity.

Reconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.

A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.

Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.

Examines twentieth-century Mexican literature and philosophy within the broad panorama of Latin American and European existentialisms.

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.

Traces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

Explores the writer's enduring literary and political legacy.

Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.

Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly.

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

A reconstruction and critical interpretation of Heidegger's remarkable relationship to the poet Georg Trakl.

Reconsiders key concepts in Marxist thought by examining the relationship between accumulation and subjectivity in Latin American narrative, film, and social and political theory.

Illuminates the ways games—from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war—were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.

Examines how contemporary US migrant women's life writing adapts autobiographical genres to call for social change benefiting minoritized communities.

Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.

Examines the skeptical foundations of literature in order to reassess the status of fiction.

An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.

Offers a wider approach to Italian American culture, one that stresses both its material, urban components and the creativity of its formal literary codes.

Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond.

Traces literary and social connections among three American women navigating the changing political landscape of 1860s and '70s Italy.

Examines how community leaders, writers, and political activists facing state repression in Latin America have drawn on and debated the validity of Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities in their own countries.